Milestones, Nov. 26, 1951

Married. Eddie Waitkus, 31, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman, who made headlines two years ago when he was shot in a Chicago hotel by a neurotic bobbysoxer; and Carol Webel, 23, Albany, N.Y. hospital worker who met Waitkus in Florida while he was convalescing; in Albany.

Married. Vladimir Zworykin, 62, Russian-born, Russian-trained physicist, the "father of television," who developed the iconoscope (eye) of the TV camera in 1923, now laments: "We never dreamed of Howdy Doody on Television — we always thought television would find its highest value in science and industry"; and Katherine Polevitzky,...

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